The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-02-25
QUITE CURED.

Major Henderson was the most OBJ
stinate man imaginable. Fora whole
hour Lieutenant Mapleson tried to
convince him that it was the hand and
heart Of Maude Henderson for which
he was pleading, her comfortable little
fortune being a matter about which he
vas supremacy Indifferent. At the ex-
piration OF the hour Major Hender-
sons decision remained unchanged.
Save a thousand pounds as a
proof of your attachment to my niece,
and l will give my consent to your
marriage with her. Under no other
circumstances will l do So" This
was the extent to which the Major
would commit himself.
Save O. thousand pounds indeed
Why, a million would be equally pos
sible to a man Of refined tastes with
but a paltry two hundred ayear orso
besides his pay.
Maude waylaId herlover outside the
library door. Very pretty she looked
as she listened to dear Jacks angry
protestations, her cheeks flushed, and
her brown eyes filling with tears.
"Yqu will be trueto me, my darling?"
pleaded the im~pecunious Lieutenant,
as his arm stole around her waist and
his tawny mustache pressed her rosy
lips.
True to him2 Indeed and indeed she
would be.
"You know, dearest, you will be
twenty-one in a fortnight's time and
your own mistress. My sweet n
will fly with her poor loving Jack
then; won't sheP"
"Yes'-rather obviously. 1t was
hard to put aside the prospect OF be-
ing followed to the altar by a bevy OF
dainty arrayed bridesmaids, al
though she was SO deeply in love.
True, she would soon be OF age, and
consequently her own mistress, but
what would that fact avail her if she
were miles away from her lover?
And such indeed seemed likely to
be the a for her uncle car
ried her off to q small village
in North Wales the day after
Lieutenant Mapleson had been
told OF his fate. OF course she left a
note behindfor dearest Jack" telling
him the name of the village to which
they were going and earnestly beg
ging MIN to do Something" although
she could think Of nothing practical
to suggest.
On the morning of her twenty first
birthday Maude came down to break
fast looking fresh, and even q little
happy. She had honestly tried to be
miserable for a whole fortnight, and
had succeeded for two days. With
youth and health on ones side it is al
most impossible to be thoroughly out
OF spirits for any length of time, how
ever much one may be experiencing
the truth of the proverb about "true
love-" &c.
The landlady's bright-looking
daughter brought in the coffee and
rolls. "ATrs. Evans, opposite, has let
her frontrooms, Miss" she volunteer
ed. "A gentleman all by himself came
and took them last night.
A gentleman, and alonel Maude's
spirits rose. "Did you happen to
hear Mrs. Evans say what her new
iodger is like? / suppose" added
naughty, deceitful Maude, che y an
elderly gentleman?"
Eyes, Miss, quite. He's q bit lame.
walks with a stick, and has q long,
gray beard. His names Mr.. Browne.
Maude's spirits fell again. At break
last, however, she mentioned che new
arrival to her uncle.
Major Henderson was beginning to
ind North Wales a little dull, SO he
listened rather readily, thinking that
there might perhaps be o prospect OF
having some one with whom to smoke
q krieiAdly pipe.